Jane Foster was born in New Orleans. She grew up there with a taste for delicious food and friendly people, and then life took her to New York for thirty-three years. There she studied English literature and art history at Finch College, and after graduating with honors, she worked at Sotheby's as assistant to Chairman John Marion. Later she worked with the famed jeweler, Fred Leighton, and then opened her own jewelry design business. She is a passionate horticulturist, and two of her gardens are included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens. After moving to Florida, for nearly two decades Jane served on the board of the Hanley Center, an alcoholism and substance abuse treatment center in south Florida. In 2018, she won the Jessica Cosgrave Award for lifetime achievement from Finch College. Jane has three children, and currently enjoys the best of all worlds, dividing her time between Florida and France. Jane has written five other novels. Her first novel, Below Sea Level, published in 2013, won an Illumination Book Award. Her second novel, Sliding, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Her third novel, Boulevard Beauséjour, written with Anne Yelland, was nominated for the Book Excellence Award. Her fourth novel, Careless, published in 2019, won the Book Excellence Award. Her latest novel, Zelda Blair, was recently published by Palmetto Publishing. Ann Bellah Copeland was born in Manhattan and spent her childhood summers in Bermuda. She graduated from The Chapin School and attended Bradford Jr. College. She was also educated at the University of Grenoble, The University of Poitiers (in Tours), and the University of Florence.When she returned to America her first job sent her to Paris as the assistant to the fashion editor at the Ladies Home Journal to cover the Collections. She published her first article at age twenty one. At twenty-two she was the head of the fashion department of Televideo Productions. She then worked in the European textiles department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was also the owner of Jadis Inc. a decorating firm in Manhattan.Her Boards have been varied. She was president of the board of The Girl's Vacation Fund, vice president of the National Institute of Social Science in New York and in Palm Beach, the head of the New York chapter of The Winston Churchill Memorial, and is a trustee emeritus of Old Westbury Gardens.Throughout her life, Ann has had a passion for travel. It started when she was very young and to date she has been to over one hundred and forty-two countries. She is the proud mother of two children and one granddaughter.